David Adams's Page

The recent Amazon S3 outage, and more recent Gmail outage, have given the whole Cloud Computing concept a reality-check. At best, it's going to temper enthusiasm for the current offerings' readiness, and at worst, will scare people off altogether. On the other hand, might it be… Continue

I ran across an interesting article on the difference between Cloud Computing and Utility Computing (two terms which are often used interchangably). In essence, seeing cloud computing as just pay-as-you-go computing services short-changes the concept.